A study in mice suggests serotonin release underlies the drug's prosocial effects while dopamine mediates the rewarding properties that drive its potential for abuse.

But can we protect them?

International codes of conduct are important, but grass-roots efforts are the key to embedding research integrity.

We explore the components that can support reproducibility by making research more easily verifiable: data, code, and protocols.

Little is known about the long-term effects of early-career setback. Here, the authors compare junior scientists who were awarded a NIH grant to those with similar track records, who were not, and find that individuals with the early setback systematically performed better in the longer term.

It's called Digid8 and will try to use your genes to make sure you never meet the wrong person.

In memory of Margarita Salas, the biochemist whose discoveries led to faster, more-accurate DNA testing.

ASAPbio and EMBO Press have launched Review Commons, a platform for high-quality, journal-independent peer review of manuscripts in the life sciences before they are submitted to a journal. 

Grant and funding withdrawals should be considered in cases of sexual harrassment, say researchers.

An image of three perpetually bouncing droplets, whose behaviour embodies a key theory in quantum physics, has won first place in the Royal Society Publishing photography competition. The award celebrates science and its beauty as portrayed through photography

Protests in Hong Kong, Lebanon, and Iran have forced cypherpunks to test censorship resistant technologies in the wild.

Institutions must act together to reform research culture.

A physicist has become embroiled in a sexism row with Wikipedia after profiles she created for female scientists were removed because they were "not notable enough".

UK health service will not gain commercial benefit from future Amazon products using its data

Evaluation reforms will go round in circles without conceptual clarity, warns Anna Hatch.

He Jiankui's manuscript shows how he ignored ethical and scientific norms in creating the gene-edited twins Lulu and Nana.

The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) has selected OAPEN and DOAB for its second funding cycle. 

We would like to inform you that the Open Call is launched again in a new form and slightly modified topics.

More than 800 PLOS articles have already been published with accompanying peer review history, transforming options for transparency in the assessment process.